Classical music

Music is a way of life and imaginative creativity for many people around the world. Music links people together no matter what type of genre they listen to. One of the different sub-cultures of music is classical music. Classical music defines music from the medieval period to the modern age and bears as a foundation for other types of music. Even though most people consider classical music to be boring, it is innovative and enjoyable to listen to. Classical music listeners listen for a variety of

M3_Classical Describing Music This paper will reflect and answer questions pertaining to the music selection of Mozart’s Symphony in G Minor, First Movement. The basic characteristics of the piece, the differences between the first and second themes, and which composer, Haydn, Mozart, or Beethoven, I would like to be friends with will be discussed. 1. The basic formal characteristics of Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 in G Minor ‘s first movement follows the classical multimovement cycle consisting of

Windfire: Flute and Percussion Spectacular at Rammelkamp Chapel. Paula & John Kasica performed on the flute and percussion with Nancy Shaaf accompanying on the piano. This was my first time attending a live classical music concert. I didn’t know what to expect. My limited experiences with classical music were listening while I studied or using it to fall asleep at night. Honestly, I worried that I might fall asleep during the concert. As it turns out, I had no reason to fret. I brought my two nieces

Renaissance Music Renaissance music is European classical music written approximately 1400 to 1600. The Renaissance followed on from the Middle Ages the name means ‘rebirth’. This time was also the time of Humanism because it focused on human life and accomplishments (Tripod). Support for the arts led to a surge of interest in music (Grendler). New musical forms emerged in France and the Netherlands in the 1400s and gradually spread to Italy and the rest of Europe. Musicians adopted these new

These two pieces of classical music reflect their respective ideologies of the time very successfully. The Enlightenment and Romantic ideologies are very different on an artistic level, and with Mozart and Mendelssohn’s music pieces we can see how the two ideologies stand up against one another. In Mozart’s Harpsichord Concerto, we see a reflection of the Enlightenment era's infatuation with sharp and straight to the point thinking. Mozart’s piece is meant to be played very quickly, and the enlightenment

grateful for in my life is growing up with a background in classical music appreciation. I remember my parents had a record of Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf at home, and I would listen to it all the time. The depth of the music was fascinating to my little brain, especially compared to the childish Disney songs and bubblegum-pop hits of the 90’s that I’d otherwise hear on the radio. But the reason why this work helped me with understanding music was that it was specifically aimed at kids in order to

The twentieth century music composition gave way to more incorporation to music as it was known. It was the time when musical rules could be reinvented, altered and in some cases completely ignored (Hansen, et al 154). This classical music was described by many different works such as, orchestral, solos, operas, concertos, symphonies, chamber music, and many others (Hansen, et al 168). As stated by Hansen, et al, “Some musical styles within the modernist movement were impressionism, serialism, minimalism

composers. He had a magnificent influence on the classical and romantic eras of music. He composed pieces that passed standard lengths. His ninth symphony, No.9 ‘Choral’, was over an hour long, this giving a new meaning to the word symphony. Beethoven introduced new instruments in his works, such as the piccolo and the bassoon. His actions inspired other composers, and their pieces as well. He was and still is the face of Classical and Romantic music.

A Study of the Effects of Early Music Education Upon Intelligence In 1993 a study was conducted on undergraduates from the Psychology Department of the University of California, Irvine. In this study students listened to ten minutes of Mozart. The result being that after listening to Mozart’s Sonata for Two Pianos K448, these test subjects scored significantly higher in spatial reasoning skills, in fact, the participants’ spatial IQ scores rose 8 to 9 points. Unfortunately, the results of this

Frederic Chopin is thought to be one of the greatest composers of classical music to come from Poland. Chopin lived and composed music during the Romantic era with some of his greatest works being in nocturne, mazurkas, and prelude. His skills were innovative and unorthodox to many people during his time because of his sense of intuitiveness. His phenomenal piano and composition skills had a defining impact on other musicians around him. However, to have such influential power Chopin did not perform